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2020-05-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
huge explosion was heard in Aleppo city after unknown aircraft conducted airstrikes on the Ramouseh military base
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Syrian state media reports explosion in northern city of Aleppo

[IsraelTimes] An explosion was heard in the Syrian city of Aleppo in the early hours of Saturday morning, Syrian state TV said.

No other details were immediately available. The Syrian official state news agency SANA first reported the incident.

BACKGROUND
On May 4, two rounds of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s attributed to Israel targeted Iran-linked targets in Syria, including one against a weapons factory in al-Safira outside Aleppo and a second against militia bases in Deir Ezzor in the east of the country. Those attacks were the sixth and seventh strikes attributed to Israel against Iran-linked forces in Syria in a period of two weeks.

The airstrike near Aleppo caused major damage to a presumed missile workshop, according to satellite images released by the Israeli analysis firm ImageSat International. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the airstrike on the al-Safira facility caused massive secondary explosions.

According to the Observatory, the strike on Tehran-backed militia bases in the Deir Ezzor region killed 14 pro-Iranian fighters, who were all either Iranian or Iraqi nationals. The Britannia-based monitor did not report any deaths in the strike on the weapons factory outside Aleppo.

Though Israeli officials generally refrain from taking responsibility for specific strikes in Syria, they have acknowledged conducting hundreds to thousands of raids in the country since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011. These have overwhelmingly been directed against Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its proxies, notably Hezbollah, but the IDF has also carried out strikes on Syrian air defenses when those batteries have fired at Israeli jets.

Israel’s fight against Iran in Syria has been ongoing for nearly a decade, after Tehran began sending its troops and its proxies into the country at the outbreak of the civil war there in 2011, but recent months have seen an increase in the number of strikes against Iran-linked sites in Syria, with the highest concentration around the capital, Damascus.
Posted by Fred 2020-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [21 views ]  Top

#1 The awesome Israeli modified F-35.
Posted by Dacama  2020-05-16 06:40||   2020-05-16 06:40|| Front Page Top

#2 One sign that you live in a sketchy neighborhood is "unknown aircraft" zooming about, conducting airstrikes at all hours of the day.
Posted by SteveS 2020-05-16 13:53||   2020-05-16 13:53|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-16 14:56||   2020-05-16 14:56|| Front Page Top

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